Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

French bravade and Old Spanish bravada, swagger, bravery, both ultimately from Vulgar Latin *brabus, brave; see brave.

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French bravade ("bragging or boasting"). Which comes from Italian bravata, from verb bravare ("brag, boast"), from bravo.

Examples

Also, Graham realized that the turning of her head and the waving of her arm was only partly in bravado, was more in aesthetic wisdom of the picture she composed, and was, most of all, sheer joy of daring and emprise of the blood and the flesh and the life that was she.

I respect John McCain for his service and patriotism, but not for his failure to look through a contemporary lens at the Iraq war rather than through a lens tainted by the posturing bravado from the scars of a VIetnam-era worldview.

Yes | No | Report from 1uglymutha wrote 7 weeks 5 days ago maybe you're sled gives you a certain bravado? confidence is good but i'd rather my confidence came from field positions used in actual hunting situations. petzal is a funny s.o.b. though.